West African Nations Cup

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The West African Nations Cup, also known as CSSA Nations Cup or "Zone 3" Championship, was a football championship held from 1982 to 1987 (not in 1985), but discontinued. Ghana won all editions, and indeed never lost a single match among the 25 they played. The tournament was unsuccessfully revived in 2001 as WAFU Championship; in 2005 a "WAFU Laurent Gbagbo West African Unity Cup" was organised between four of the better teams of the region, apparently as an invitational tournament so not a proper successor of the tournament of the eighties.

The Conseil supérieur du sport en Afrique (CSSA) (English: Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA)) was established in July 1965 in Brazzaville as the Comité pérmanent du sport Africain (CPSA). Its present title was adopted in Bamako on 14 December 1966. Since 3 July 1977, the CSSA has been functioning as a specialised agency of the Organisation of African Unity and has its headquarters in Yaoundé, Cameroon.^[1]

Year	Host		Final				Third place match
			Champion	Score	Second place		Third place	Score	Fourth place
1982 Details	Benin		Ghana	2–1	Togo		Burkina Faso	1–1	Ivory Coast
1983 Details	Ivory Coast		Ghana	3–1	Togo		Ivory Coast	2–1	Liberia
1984 Details	Burkina Faso		Ghana	1–1	Togo		Ivory Coast	2–0	Burkina Faso
1986 Details	Ghana		Ghana	1–0	Togo		Niger	2–1	Burkina Faso
1987 Details	Liberia		Ghana	2–1	Liberia		Nigeria	3–1	Togo

Wins	Nation	Year(s)
5 times	Ghana	1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Ghana	28	18	7	0	56	19	+37
Togo	24	9	7	8	29	32	−3
Ivory Coast	17	5	8	4	24	23	+1
Nigeria	10	6	2	2	8	7	+1
Burkina Faso	18	4	5	9	15	26	−11
Liberia	15	4	2	9	13	17	−4
Niger	12	2	3	7	9	21	−12
Benin	10	1	3	6	11	20	−9

• West African Nations Cup or "Zone 3" Championship